Can you find a physical address from an IP address? Yes, it's possible, but no, you normally can't. The only time someone can find out information such as that from your IP address is if you have a Static IP address and a domain name connected to that IP address with your personal information registered... for the most part. At least, that's the easiest way.
The short story is that you can't find people through their IP address using a modern dynamic IP address and modern security technology. You can ping them info packets through their IP, but many IP's aren't actually hosted on the computer they are coming from, they are hosted on a DHCP server that gave them that address and may not even be located near them at all. Government officials would have to request that information from the internet distributor and that company would HAVE to allow it or it wouldn't happen. Although, with the Patriot Act around, it's much easier for them to get your info. So much so that people have actually been caught SAYING they are the government and using government names etc. to get personal information and stalk people. Knowing an IP obtained from a simple lookup CAN be spammed with packets either harmful or not, however, if the address is not static then it is likely just being an attack on the DHCP that the IP originates from and wouldn't most likely be powerful enough to even harm 1% of the overall end-users internet speed.
Yes, the IP addresses in this section most likely would not lead directly to a person that posted on them and also, even through spamming, may not even effect the end-user. So stop being a hardass Mailas. This post was just another way of saying "f**k YOU" to spammers - not really intentionally endangering people. I could have gone much further to endanger these people. In fact, since it's so easy for most law enforcement to find out your personal information (through various legislation that Congress in the United States has passed) it's possible to find an IP, find the nearest corresponding police department over that jurisdiction, contact them with the info you have, and be led to who to file lawsuit against - which in turn, obviously, provides everything you need. Even to the point of spamming them in the face with rocks. I know you can do that because I HAVE done that, and that was done without a hack or spam of any kind. I just didn't use a rock though and didn't file charges.
The long story is that you can find someone through their IP address. First of all, if you think that your physical address does not play a part in your IP address, you're downright wrong. It doesn't say, "Hi, I live at 123 Main Street", but that's the whole point of an IP address, to identify and address a component as translated by the server that identifies your component (computer). That address, given by your IP Addressee (your internet company), directly corresponds to an account which directly corresponds to your exact full name, address, social security #, and so on. Now, you can bring up the argument that the information never gets leaked, and I can say that it does... because it does.
The issue about being able to physically find someone with the IP alone basically comes down to
how the IP is translated. It is even possible that more than one device may seem to be sharing an IP address (legitimately) by software or hardware. Most of the time if you come face to face with a "
serious" spammer, they will have multiple machines or VM's across a network being hidden (in part) by a NAT with one address.
Most times, a NAT will only be seen by people with routers who can assign multiple different computers with different private IP addresses to a public one, which can be hard to tell sometimes, but at the end of the day, if you traced the route of that signal, it would still lead you to the router used to those machines, therefor, effectively showing you the location of where said IP address originates.
An IP address doesn't lead to much. You can, however, ping IP addresses, and through a process similar to "pinging" someone, you can "spike" someone. Usually, a "spike" is just a bunch of information sent to you too quickly for your computer to respond causing lag, like Mailas sort of eluded to. That is weak child's play that most typical text spammers can do with command prompt. There are, however, ways to get into systems that are less than optimally protected to even view files on the person's computer, virtually, if you infect their PC successfully with malware acting in your favor. The IP address, however, is not the best way to go about infecting someone's PC.
Mailas G wrote:The creator suggests you can "spam" people by knowing their IP.
I have no idea what in the hell he means by this, whether it be someones email, or spam a ton of packets
to ones computer and thus somehow crashing it? No.
Yes, you do know what I mean by that or else you wouldn't bring that up as a suggestion, although you know yourself that it doesn't "work" well like that. That is, to spam people at these addresses. The purpose of this topic isn't really to be taken so anally, although I respect your desire to take it that way. This thread, like I said before, is just to show that we actually do find the spam accounts, squash them, and have no respect for their rights.
The bottom line is that an IP address corresponds to a server that gave it that address, and that server can be hacked or the information viewed as a leak online or otherwise. The issue of who can hack it or how to hack it is the biggest question if you aren't trying to infect someone with malware and therefor sneak into their system personally, but the IP address probably wouldn't be your starting point for doing this type of attack anyways. Even a full name could prove more useful for that measure of attack. Any code that has ever been written can be reverse engineered no matter how much it is encrypted. It's possible, but almost impossible.
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